linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Rework /proc/locks via seq_files and seq

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Message-ID: <46F23351.2020003@openvz.org>
Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:46:09 +0400
From:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
CC:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rework /proc/locks via seq_files and seq_list helpers
 (v2)

Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> Currently /proc/locks is shown with a proc_read function, but
> its behavior is rather complex as it has to manually handle
> current offset and buffer length. On the other hand, files 
> that show objects from lists can be easily reimplemented using
> the sequential files and the seq_list_XXX() helpers.
> 
> This saves (as usually) 16 lines of code and more than 200 from
> the .text section.
> 
> This patch looks rather ugly, as diff often uses curly braces
> as not-changed lines, but I haven't managed to organize the 
> code to make diff look better. Except for move the whole proc
> related stuff upper/lower in the locks.c file...
> 
> Fixed the problem, spotted by J. Bruce Fields, about the fl
> variable reuse.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>

OOPS! Please disregard, wrong comment was copied :(
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